Brainstorm was also founded in 1996 and specialized in educational games. Another division was founded in 1996 to develop role-playing games, becoming Black Isle Studios two years later. One of the divisions was created in 1995, called VR Sports and later renamed to Interplay Sports in 1998, to deal with sports games. Interplay's business grew well into the mid-1990s, such that Fargo, its CEO, split it into several more divisions with some employed as directors overseeing the divisions' projects. In the early 1990s, Interplay founded a division called MacPlay that was tasked with porting the company's games to the macOS. Dragon Wars became the first game that Interplay published while it continued to score hits with titles such as Battle Chess, titles that demonstrated early on the developer's preference for risk-taking involving unconventional concepts for them. As a developer, it produced several graphic adventure games for Activision to publish, but its first major hit was The Bard's Tale in 1985, a role-playing game published by Electronic Arts. The company was founded in 1983 by former Boone Corporation colleagues Brian Fargo, Troy Worrell, Jay Patel, and Rebecca Heineman (then known as Bill Heineman), as well as an investor and University of California, Irvine, teacher named Chris Wells, and adopted Interplay Productions as its original company name two years later.

Interplay Entertainment is an American video game developer and publisher.

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